business ethics

No, it’s never too early to make sure a founder is telling the truth

This year has seen numerous founders get caught lying about their users, VCs should start asking the right questions early.

6 investors share where they draw the line when it comes to ethical issues

Investors are paying more attention to founder and startup behavior and many won't invest in startups that could compromise their ethics.

Founders must show investors that sustainability is more than lip service

Even without regulation as a stick, consumer demand is now serving as a carrot to increase sustainability’s impact on public companies’ agendas.

How to lead a digital transformation — ethically

Leaders need to embrace an all-new learning curve: How to engage in digital transformation that includes ethics by design.

To build responsibly, tech needs to do more than just hire chief ethics officers

The builders, questioners, makers and ethical leaders coming up in technology firms now will help us to reshape the industry for the better and create the products we deserve.

Four steps for drafting an ethical data practices blueprint

Here are four key practices that chief data officers/scientists and chief analytics officers (CDAOs) should employ when creating their own ethical data and business practice framework.

Silicon Valley needs a new approach to studying ethics now more than ever

If we want more informed discussions about tech’s behavior, and we want the people who make choices to enter these crises prepared to think ethically, we need to start training people who work in te

WTF is dark pattern design?

If you’re a UX designer you won’t need this article to tell you about dark pattern design. But perhaps you chose to tap here out of a desire to reaffirm what you already know — to fe